not used: Amount of 17.8 m radius plot covered by rock, recorded in percent; 999 = missing; used after 1990.

Table: Plottype

Source of vegetation type data. From dataset description: "The
numbering system, the format, and most of the descriptions have been
taken and modified from Robert F. Holland's Preliminary Descriptions
of the Terrestrial Natural Communities of California (Holland 1986).
We borrowed additional descriptions from an adaptation of the system
for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks."